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That's a new one, punctured oil pan on the highway (with damage pics)
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Fennellg
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It’s just weird. Kids were recently arrested for tossing things at cars. They killed some one.
I once sucked a piece of tire tread up into my Harley’s drive belt. It moved my wheel out of alignment. Oddly enough the dealership put it back together everything worked and I went on my way. waiting on the tow was the biggest bitch of the whole ordeal. That and feeling 80 horses stall at 70 mph.
weird happens sometimes.
I once sucked a piece of tire tread up into my Harley’s drive belt. It moved my wheel out of alignment. Oddly enough the dealership put it back together everything worked and I went on my way. waiting on the tow was the biggest bitch of the whole ordeal. That and feeling 80 horses stall at 70 mph.
weird happens sometimes.
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Madhatter
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I drive class 8 (eighteen wheelers ) had a flat and found a 10 inch crescent (adjustable ) wrench stuck in tire . velocity plus mass does crazy things.
render - Good job on stopping fast enough to prevent damage. You're not the first and won't be the last to hole the pan.
The oil pan has long been known to be the Achilles Heel of the bike and people have punctured them simply by the front wheel throwing up a rock. As Sierra1 wrote, even a mediocre skid plate would be enough.
On the upside, nearly any shop which can weld aluminum can have you back on the road in a jiffy.
The oil pan has long been known to be the Achilles Heel of the bike and people have punctured them simply by the front wheel throwing up a rock. As Sierra1 wrote, even a mediocre skid plate would be enough.
On the upside, nearly any shop which can weld aluminum can have you back on the road in a jiffy.
cyclemike4
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Like Sierra said even a light skip pan would help. My bike is proof of that. I have an aluminum pan that bolts to the front of the motor with light brackets and has a rubber bumper in the middle then bolted to a cross brace in the back that is bolted to the foot peg area. Not ideal by any means but help yes it does. I have on a few occasions lifted and thrown this bike completely sideways during a ride from a flat rock flipping up under it. three of these incidents I just knew the motor was crushed. I am talking picking the bike up both wheels and throwing it one to two feet to the side. only one sent me down and of course it was in a deep creek on a 40 degree day! burr! Any way I have crushed two oil filters and have had to beat that pan out several times but so far no damage to the motor even though I don't know why even with the pan under it. Of course my incidents have been between 10 and 20 miles per hour. I have had things ding off it at highway speeds but nothing like those big rocks. Just put a ding in the pan and all was o.k. Given the configuration of motorcycles these days and the debris that seems to be worse on the roads now days I expect to see a lot of bikes with busted motors. Oil filters and motors seem to really be vulnerable on most models these days.
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I remember someone in the very beginning back in 2011/2012 that was riding around with only the plastic front "guard"... this was so far back no one had skid plates built yet or few people owned them...... A guy ran over what I remember was a chunk of rebar and it bounced up and shot through the front of the motor..............
Even for 'street only' guys..... I think all these should have something just to help..... Never know all the little garbage on the high way that gets kicked up....
Even for 'street only' guys..... I think all these should have something just to help..... Never know all the little garbage on the high way that gets kicked up....
That's why I have crash bars and a skid plate. Better to have it, and not need it, than need it, and not have it. Even my sons have Canyon Cages (out of business) on their bikes, and they don't even go down gravel roads.
Minor setback. New oilpan from Partzilla came slightly damaged. Mating surface on opposite ends of the pan is smushed a bit as well as the dowel hole is not round. Shoutout to them, they're sending me a new one and a return shipping label.
I hit a bowling ball sized rock, 35 mph in a west Texas construction zone at O'dark thirty. Only because I had the ACD skid plate was I able to keep on riding. Without it I would have completely destroyed my engine case! The thicker and beefier the better!
Hurtaki
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Nice work! I doubt your intentions were to become an inspiration to others…but you have I’m now getting a skid plate.